Week in review: You know you want a $25 computer that can run Quake 3

Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:

“This $25 computer (yes, computer!) also runs Quake 3”
It’s hard to believe, but the Raspberry Pi computer is smaller than a USB stick, costs just $25, and can run Quake 3 at full resolution with a respectable frame rate. The popularity of Matthew Lynley’s story shows that you people are just as excited about this as we are.

“Apple loses another iPhone at a bar”
Oops! They did it again. Or did they? Devindra Hardawar’s story reports on a story that Cnet broke about an iPhone 5 prototype being left at a San Francisco bar — but documentation is sketchy in this case.

“Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff cheers on HP for fleeing PC industry”
Everyone else thinks HP has lost its mind. Not Benioff: He welcomes the company to the new, cloud-based future. He also predicts we’ll soon see a corporate CEO get fired “for failing to listen to its customers and to listen to employees, just like Gadaffi and Mubarak.” Story by Matthew Lynley.

And here are five more posts we think are important, thought-provoking, fun, or all of the above:

Exclusive: Facebook opens up about open-source software
This is the second of a two-part exclusive on Facebook’s involvement with and creation of open source technologies. VentureBeat’s Jolie O’Dell goes in-depth with Facebook’s David Recordon about the company’s use of — and contributions to — open source software.

Back to school: Our top 5 digital education tools
Textbooks are making the leap from paper to the Web and mobile apps. So, with school just around the corner, let’s take a look at some of the latest tools to help you get the most out of your education. Meghan Kelly rounds up five of the best.

Purple lights and math help PlantLab grow food more efficiently
The Dutch “plant control freaks” behind PlantLab want to farm indoors under purple light. It’s not just for the looks, though. PlantLab has recently developed a set of technologies for optimal indoor farming so that food can grow anywhere from the sunless heart of an office building to an abandoned factory. Story by Ciara Byrne.